Tag: freedom in Christ

Judge Less. More Filling.

Posted on by Michael Rose
“Judge not lest you be judged” are haunting words for me.  I am coming to realize that a constant problem of the human creation is the propensity to judge others.   I think there are a variety of reasons for this but for our purposes here, suffice to say it is the natural consequence of…
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The Longing for Deeper Freedom

Posted on by Michael Rose
So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. – John 8:36 It is a universal cry of the human heart.  The cry ‘freedom’ has resonated through the long halls of history and just as in day’s past. This longing resonates just as loudly today.  Of course, freedom has many contexts including…
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Check your Luggage!

Posted on by Michael Rose
As a family, we enjoy road trips.  We like adventuring out to a Kite festival or a vacation destination or just to tour the back-water places of western Canada and the United States.  They are wonderful adventures and along with discovering a lot of interesting things (like carpolite a.k.a petrified dinosaur poo!)  and people, we…
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Freedom in Love

Posted on by Michael Rose
There is an interesting bit of scripture in Galatians where Paul states: “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” (Gal 5:1a, NIV). It is part of the larger context of Galatians, as Paul is contrasting our freedom in Christ with the bondage that we seem to perpetually gravitate towards. He is absolutely…
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